The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions.
"Italo Calvino" was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous journalists! More Italo Calvino on Wikipedia.The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.
Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.
It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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